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Why liberal arts leaders should know STEM isn’t the enemy

University Business

Many of these op-eds blame the utilitarian popularity of the STEM disciplines for declining enrollments and diminishing support for the traditional liberal arts. I know I can find support for the value of the liberal arts among the leaders of the very STEM disciplines whose popularity my colleagues decry.

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The Evolution of the Humanities

HEPI

Aimed as much at helping to empower citizens for whom the world has changed in confusing ways as it is at workers in industries that need to work smarter to understand how to communicate across cultural borders, this course gives vital skills and knowledge for anyone who wants to interact successfully with the globalised contemporary world.

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The Power of Empowerment

Faculty Focus

Encouraging a growth mindset in students is incredibly empowering. By offering such resources and tips, I model best learning practices and empower students to own their learning in personal ways supportive of a growth mindset. Education Sciences 12, no. Proceedings of the European Conference on E-Learning , January 2019, 65–69.

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The Power of Empowerment

Faculty Focus

Encouraging a growth mindset in students is incredibly empowering. By offering such resources and tips, I model best learning practices and empower students to own their learning in personal ways supportive of a growth mindset. Education Sciences 12, no. Proceedings of the European Conference on E-Learning , January 2019, 65–69.

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Nine insights from an integration process (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

With the integration of the BSDT, Clark is positioned to empower scholarship, pedagogy and innovation related to creative arts, media, design and technology. The academic programs represented by the BSDT were complementary to, and synergistic with, Clark’s existing curricular and programmatic offerings.

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How to Improve College Teaching in 2023

Inside Higher Ed

A tripartite curriculum -- consisting of general education requirements to guarantee intellectual breadth and ensure that graduates acquire a foundation in the liberal arts, a major to offer depth, and electives to maximize individual choice – is supposed to produce well-rounded graduates.

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ELEVATE program: Achievement Strategies from Illinois Tech: Changing Higher Education Podcast 166 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Raj Echambadi

The Change Leader, Inc.

At the same time, it becomes the job of educational leaders to make sure that those strategies get implemented so their learners remain empowered. Three, fueling future innovation by empowering students to become human-centered technologists. We are a technology-based school predominantly focused on engineering and computer science.